well the church can marry anyone but cant give you a marriage liceance that is what you get from a court house and a list of facts about being gay,,,,1. You and your partner will have trouble finding and settling on “the one,” since the median number of partners for homosexuals is four times higher than for heterosexuals. Expect and tolerate much infidelity in your relationship if you want it to last (Whitehead and Whitehead, 1999, calculated from Laumann et al, 1994).
2. You will be 50% more likely than if you were heterosexual to be a drug-addicted and depressed and 10% more likely to suffer from antisocial personality disorder (Ellis et al., 1995). Your suicide risk will be 3 times higher than the overall rate for American men, even if you are not the recipient of anti-gay harassment (UCSF, 2002). Also, you should consider postponing coming out, as your suicide risk will decrease by 20% every year you delay labeling yourself as a homosexual or bisexual (LifeSiteNews).
3. If you are male and plan on engaging in anal intercourse, be prepared to do your laundry often, or wear diapers. The soiling of clothes from fecal seepage is a problem for 25-35% of homosexuals practicing anal intercourse. You can also expect anal fissures and abnormal rectal tissues (The Nature of Homosexuality, 2004).
4. As a homosexual male, you will have 3 times the chance compared with a straight male of getting intestinal parasitic infections and about twice the probability of getting intestinal protozoan infestations. Here are some examples of worms and microbes your body will likely host: herpes simplex virus, Chlamydia trachomatis, Treponema pallidum, Neisseria gonorrhea, Campylobacter jejuni, syphilis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, Shigella flexneri, Entamoeba histolytica, Clostridium difficile, Giardia lamblia, salmonella, and nematodes. (The Nature of Homosexuality, 2004).
5. Expect to meet many pedophiles. About half of pedophiles are homosexuals, despite the fact that homosexuals make up approximately 3% of the population. Remember, young boys comprised almost 100% of the victims of pedophilic Catholic priests (The Nature of Homosexuality, 2004).
6. Also expect to know a lot of homosexuals who sexually abuse their own children. About a third of children born to homosexuals are incestuously molested, compared with 1% of children born to heterosexuals (Adolescence, 1996).
7. As a gay, your lifespan will most likely be about 42 yrs of age, and as a lesbian, about 44 yrs of age. This short lifespan is resultant of homosexuals’ increased rates of psychological disorders, drug abuse, suicide, alcoholism, venereal diseases, and violent sexual practices (Cameron et al., 1993).
8. Be prepared for some extended lonely periods. Studies in San Francisco and Europe note that nearly half of lesbians and more than half of gays live alone, partly because it better facilitates their “free love” lifestyle and also because homosexual unions are inherently short-lived in nature.
9. Don’t expect that the legalization of gay marriage will make you any happier. Danish researchers find that lesbians and gays are about three times more likely to experience death of a spouse (mostly due to the high levels of risk-taking in their lifestyles) than their heterosexual counterparts.
10. You will likely experience a great deal of domestic abuse, both physical and emotional. The FBI confirms that, despite common beliefs, homosexuals deal more violence to homosexuals than homophobes do. Whereas about 3% of married heterosexuals physically abuse or rape a spouse, the rate of physical abuse and rape among homosexual partners varies from 12-50% (“Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence,” United States Department of Justice) (Merrill, 1996).
